I'm not sure if any of this was discussed before, I checked a bit, but I'm pretty lazy...

Ok, here we go. Isn't it strange that most powerful wizard, well, second, is a halfblood? (Lord Voldemort). Also, Harry is pretty powerful for an underage wizard, and he is also a halfblood. While Ron and Neville, though they are both pretty talented (or getting there), are purebloods and are at no means, the same level as Harry when it comes to magic. Then there are the muggleborns like Hermione and Lily. In classes, Hermione is the first to learn new spells, all the time. Lily, who's wand was good for charms, I guess you can assume she was along the same lines- especially since she ended up as Head Girl.

My first point is that, halfbloods seem to be much more powerful than any other wizard, which got me down the path to thinking that Dumbledore could very possibly be a halfblood. Not that I think he's the HBP, it would just be interesting to see if blood really effects how good of a wizard you are.

Next point, doens't Hermione remind you of Lily in some ways? Could it be they're heading down the same path? It's pretty obvious that Hermione is Head Girl material, and I don't know if we ever find out what Hermione's wand is, but wouldn't it be cool if it were similiar to Lily's? Maybe that's why people think that Hermione and Harry have a 'thing', because she's rather like a mother, don't you think? The way she thinks ahead is not a teenage characteristic. Then in OotP, Hermione is taken out of the battle in the MoM, could this be foreshadowing that Hermione might not live?

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ohh nice theory. i didnt really notice that before, that some of the most powerful wizards are half blood. although, this doesnt really confirm the fact that your power could be ranked by your blood. we can say it can, be we cant say like it has to be true. but i like the idea, you have a good eye

dumbledore being half blood does sound likely, but you know how some people call him a muggle lover? you dont really call someone that if they are a muggle (um, muggle born in this case) or part muggle themselves (half blood). so i'm just guessing that he's pure blood. but then again, he would be related to sirius if he was, seeing that sirius said all pure bloods were interrelated. hmmm...

hmmm yes, hermione does remind me of lily. smart, muggleborn, etc. and harry does seem to repeat history soo...but i'm a ron/hermione supporter, so eh? lol. but it can happen.

if hermione doesn't live because of how she was taken out in the OotP battle, then i'm putting my money on ron being dead too eventually (SS, chess battle). from the way i see it, she could be cut by a sword. i dont know, it first came into my head when i reread it. hmmm but ron's chess game predicted what mostly happened (i already posted it why, look for a thread saying ron's death or something like that), so we dont know if the battle in OotP will foretell anything, since it's the latest book.

Oh! Thank you, I made them myself, *bows* Kyo is such a stubborn Ron crossed with angsty Harry... My two favorite men in one, how can I not love Kyo? lol

Also, I'm a TOTAL supporter for Ron and Hermione hooking up! Nooo way will she be with Harry. I was looking more at the person of Lily... Ain't no way Hermione and Harry will hook up as long as Ron's around- he'd rip Harry's heart out if he tried to move in on his woman, lol.

Oh yeah... I totally forgot about Ron in that sense. It was probably because I can't stand the fact of imagining Ron dead. Though, I think it will also be his fate as well. With both Ron and Hermione killed by/by orders of Voldemort, Harry will have enough passion to vanquish him. I have a feeling that the room in the Ministry that holds what Harry pocesses is, in fact, love. With Sirius, Ron, and Hermione dead, then Harry will come into his own and finish Voldemort once and for all.

Eh, but these are just theories of mine that are always changing as new things are pointed out to me, and trust me, I need things spelt out to process any of it, lol.

Good thoughts, good observations there.... In the beginning, I always thought that JKR was setting Hermione up to be more like a mother figure to Ron and an equal companion for Harry. When they left on the Hogwarts Express in PS, JKR made a thing about Mrs Weasley rubbing the dirt off Ron's nose and then Hermione comes in and says the same thing - I thought JKR was drawing parallels between them, you know? But I now think that the dirt thing was more to show how closely Hermione was actually paying attention to Ron? Especially after the Yule Ball thing, I'm pretty sure that JKR intends Ron and Hermione to get together. Whether or not they remain together though is another thing, seeing as how I personally believe that Ron is, unfortunately, going to kick the bucket in book 7...

As for DD being half blood...undeniably blood is very important to the series. Apart from the direct references to blood purity (influenced by the racial purity stuff the Nazis were all about during the war, something JKR did a lot of research on) there are many other references to blood throughout the books - from the Bloody Baron, to 'blood-red suns' and so on...and now she's calling the next book the HBP which does seem to indicate how important heritage is. If DD is anything, I suppose it's highly likely that he is half blood - and it would make sense from the point of view of balance - they have equal amounts of wizard and Muggle in them, achieving balance, making them the most powerful wizards. Yes, he has been called a 'Muggle-loving fool', but that doesn't necessarily mean that he can't be Muggle born himself. He probably is pure blood though, I guess...considering all the respect he gets within the wizarding community (or, at least, used to ) Just because he's not on the Black family tree, doesn't mean he can't be related to them in a very distant way...after all, Neville's not on there either......

The theory about half-blood being more powerful possibly than pure-bloods, that's interesting and raises this:

Perhaps that it's almost a form of evolution. Like, that wizards NEED muggles in order to survive and prosper. It's like, with dogs, pure, pedigree breeds are generally much weaker and more feeble than breeds with a little bit of a mix in them. It would go to say, like, that definitely wizards are not actually better than muggles, in any way. Because even the good friendly wizards for the msot part do seem to have this opinion that in a way, muggles, and a muggle way of life is below them...which kinda goes to the haulocaust thing of feeling one race is better than another, which is clearly not true...

Oh, I'm not expressing what I mean at all well, am I? Ugh, so tried...

Haha, I think that purebloods aren't as powerful because they're all mixed with each other... incest does seem to mess with people's genes. Though, they probably don't marry in together too closelty related, but I think it may have a little something to do with it.